Running 2011 Bowl Season Thread- Match-ups on Page 1

Iowa State and Rutgers at Yankee Stadium. SJ outing?

 

Same old Sparty which kicked Michigan's ass. So I guess teams should try to play for third place in conferences which have championship games because they will jump up in the rankings just by sitting on their couches.

 

Why do people think the bowl system is based on merit? There is only one game, the BCS championship game, which is supposedly based on merit. The rest is pretty much the prerogative of bowl organizers. Why is that so hard to understand?

I suppose the bowls that are guaranteed to have conference champions are at least partially based on merit, too.

 

If people can't get up for 6-7 UCLA against 6-6 Illinois in San Francisco, I just don't know what the world's coming to.

 

I realize that January 1 falls on a Sunday, home to the church of pro football, but how sad there will be no bowl game played on New Year's Day.

 

Fine, ucacm, I'll concede your point, but that matters little, because I think it shouldn't be that way. Slot the whole shebang!

 

If you went to a hard bowl slotting system based on the order of conference standings, I think the result would be a lot less bowl games. People wouldn't be bitching about getting passed over for X bowl, they'd be bitching about not going to a bowl at all. Now, some may argue there are too many bowl games, but that is another debate.

 

I just find it hilarious that all the Boise fanbois around here are bitching about how their beloved Broncos got screwed by the very system they've benefited from in the past.

 

I'll bite: why would there be fewer bowls?

 

Think someone will actually score one of those new-fangled things called a touchdown this time? Think Alabama's kickers will take off the square toe and actually make something past 30 yards?

Wow, I'm not Boise State fan but you don't "benefit" from the system if you were an automatic qualifier for a BCS game because of your BCS ranking. You'd earned it, it's not some entitlement present like Michigan and Va Tech got tonight.

And at least Boise State wins when it plays a BCS bowl, and doesn't just show up, mail it in and steal the money, as Alabama did against Utah. Or at least, that's what we're told, since Bama fans trying to rationalize that out-and-out total ass-kicking said they just didn't care.

 

Without the BCS Boise does not make two Fiesta Bowl appearances. That's called benefitting from the system.